Bringing Jean Genet and Jacques Lacan into dialogue, James Penney
examines the overlooked similarities between Genet's literary
oeuvre and Lacanian psychoanalysis, uncovering in particular their
shared ontology of fragility and incompletion. This book exposes
the two thinkers' joint and unwavering ontological conviction that
the representations that make up the world of appearances are
inherently enigmatic: inscrutable, not only on the level of their
problematic link to knowledge and meaning, but also, more
fundamentally, as concerns the reliability of their existence.
According to Genet and Lacan, the signification of words and images
will forever remain unfulfilled, just like the whole of reality, as
if prematurely removed from the oven, under-baked. Genet, Lacan and
the Ontology of Incompletion reveals how, in the same manner as
Lacan's psychoanalytic act, Genet's acts of poetry further seek to
expose the fragile prop that holds our reality together, baring the
fissures in being for which fantasy normally compensates. Moving
away from scholarship that considers Genet's plays, novels,
sexuality and politics in isolation, Penney explores the whole span
of Genet's work, from his early novels to the
posthumously-published Prisoner of Love and, combining this with
psychoanalysis, opens up new avenues for thinking about Genet,
Lacan and our wanting being.
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